From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:3509 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161048AbWFVKs0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:48:26 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.17] Standardize i386/x86_64 handling of NMI_VECTOR Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:48:21 +0200 References: <11413.1150966866@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <11413.1150966866@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606221248.21834.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Keith Owens Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 22 June 2006 11:01, Keith Owens wrote: > x86_64 and i386 behave inconsistently when sending an IPI on vector 2 > (NMI_VECTOR). Make both behave the same, so IPI 2 is sent as NMI. > > The crash code was abusing send_IPI_allbutself() by passing a code > instead of a vector, it only worked because crash knew about the > internal code of send_IPI_allbutself(). Change crash to use NMI_VECTOR > instead, and remove the comment about how crash was abusing the function. Does that fix anything? -Andi